Welcome!About us

​Welcome to Mat’s Mysteries.​Mystery comedy play scripts for your community theatre.

Is your theatre looking for new and different scripts?Is your theatre looking for plays that are fun for both your actors and your audience?Is your theatre looking for a little murder and mystery?

I’m Mat Kelly.

I believe that community theatre should be smart, accessible, entertaining, and above all, fun. I write scripts with the needs of community theatres in mind. My plays are fun mystery comedies, with simple technical requirements, and predominantly, female casts.

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Play Scripts

​Electronic copies of the scripts are available free of charge upon request.

Curse of the Silver PharaohA murder at a museum, a 4,000 year old mummy, a lot of yellow plastic voodoo dolls, and a detective who can’t deal with people.Cast: 6 female, 2 maleSingle set. Some technical requirements.

Die TheatricallyA murder at a community theatre’s all women’s production of Macbeth the Musical. But is it a murder? Or is it a double murder? Or a murder suicide?Cast: 5 female, 2 male​Single set. Minimal technical requirements.

The Horribly Horrifying Fun House of DeathA group of oddball co-workers are trapped in an old mansion, turned tourist attraction, and uncover its dark past.Cast: 4 female, 2 male​Single set. Some technical requirements.

The Lone Rider: A Large Number of Ways to Die in the WestA bank robbery and a dead deputy. It's up to a greenhorn and a mysterious stranger to find out who gall dang dunnit!Cast: 4 female, 3 maleMinimalist set. Some technical requirements.

Murder by the BookA murder at an all women’s mystery writers club. Revenge, greed, jealousy, blackmail, a locked door, and plenty of red herrings; everything you need for a good mystery.Cast: 5 female, 1 male​Single set. Minimal technical requirements.

Nanny Featherbottom and the Neighbour’s CorpseNanny Featherbottom; birdwatcher, romance novelist, busybody, and 5 time widow, witnesses a murder and decides it would be fun to solve it herself.Cast: 7 female, 3 male​Minimalist set. Some technical requirements.

The Roman AffairP.I. Frankie Muldoon, finds himself in the middle of a mob war when he is hired to find a missing person. A noir comedy with murder, romance, and roller skates.Cast: 7 female, 3 male​Minimalist set. Some technical requirements.

Talking Carrots at the End of Act OneA Playwright is hindered by his rebellious muse and temperamental main character. A one act comedy.Cast: 1 female, 3 maleSingle set. Minimal technical requirements.

The Terrifying Tale of Blue BeardBlue Beard’s 7 wives all died mysteriously. This concerns Anne, who is told she is to be number 8. A one act pantomime.Cast: 5 female, 2 maleMinimalist set. Minimal technical requirements.

​ Theft of the Venetian Nude with the Spider Monkey in the ForegroundSex, crime, and a monkey. A journalist is in over his head when he interviews Europe’s greatest seductress and art thief, now retired. A one act comedy.Cast: 1 female, 1 maleSingle set. Minimal technical requirements.